Day: August 8, 2006

Red shoes and white socks…nice.

(h/t A Socialite’s Life)

If we’ve learned anything since 9/11, it’s this; when 11 Egyptian students granted entrance into the U.S. for educational purposes suddenly disappear in New York, worry about it.

Eleven Egyptian students who were supposed to travel to a Montana university after flying to JFK airport late last month disappeared in New York, spurring federal authorities to issue a nationwide alert, officials said yesterday.

The students – who were traveling with six classmates from Mansoura University in Egypt – had their student visas revoked for failing to show up at Montana State University in Bozeman, the officials said.

“At this point, all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program, and their visas have been revoked,” Kolko said.

“We do not know of any association with any terrorist or criminal groups. There is no threat associated with these men. We have simply asked law enforcement’s assistance in locating them so that the FBI and ICE may interview them.”

Rep. Peter King (R-L.I.), who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said the situation “has to be taken very seriously.”

“Having a number of students from an Arab country arriving on student visas and disappearing is cause for concern,” he said.

Here’s a question; how can Liberals search for these guys, six of which have ‘Mohammed’ somewhere in their name, without racial profiling?

The party girl and sometimes actress Lindsay Lohan wants to go to Iraq with Hillary and entertain the troops just like Marilyn Monroe did in Korea.

Brian Wimborne in The Australian on why the Left hates Israel:

The state’s success has been the reason the Left turned against Israel. Within a few years of its foundation, Israel had broken the first commandment of the Left’s ideology: “Thou shalt not succeed.” Success is anathema to the Left because it puts an end to victimhood; without victims the Left has no reason to exist. In the eyes of the Left’s supporters, Israel’s great accomplishments meant that the country no longer qualified as a victim. Israel, through being successful, effectively turned its back on the role chosen for it by the Left.

Read the rest.

Were you fooled by Lanny Davis’ piece in Opinion Journal today? On first glance it looked like Lanny was serving up a big ‘ol juicy smack down on his fellow Democrats. Wrong. This ‘liar for liars’ who’s now trying to represent himself as some sort of centrist conscience is doing nothing more than feigning shock and disbelief that intolerance exists within the Left.

I came to believe that we liberals couldn’t possibly be so intolerant and hateful, because our ideology was famous for ACLU-type commitments to free speech, dissent and, especially, tolerance for those who differed with us. And in recent years–with the deadly combination of sanctimony and vitriol displayed by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter and Michael Savage–I held on to the view that the left was inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right.

Uh, excuse me Lanny, but have you listened to Al Franken? Or how Keith ‘Mr. Tolerance’ Olbermann? Have you heard the shrieking and the shrillness of any number of speeches delivered by Hillary Clinton in the last 12 months? And what about Al “They Played On Our Fears” Gore?

And of course, there are the character assassination tactics employed by the Clintonistas (of which you claim membership) in the 90’s against a few folks like…

— Kathleen Willey
— Monica Lewinsky
— Paula Jones
— Gennifer Flowers

Pretending that the Left has been “inherently more tolerant and less hateful than the right” proves one thing Mr. Davis. It proves you live in a protected bubble amongst like minded leftists who spend an inordinate amount of time switching between a gaze at their reflection in the mirror and a long hard intent focus on their own navels.

Wake up Lanny. Your ilk has been playing the hate game long before the dope smokin’ sixties, an era you seem happily stuck in.